/ Literary 007 / 1957 - From Russia, With Love /

Summary

Written by Evan Willnow on 24 Mar, 2002

It was 8 April 1957 when publisher Jonathan Cape released the book that many, including John F. Kennedy, consider to be Ian Fleming’s greatest masterpiece. From Russia With Love is a brilliant tale of revenge. The revenge of one of the world’s most powerful nations waged against one man. A man named James Bond.

From Russia With Love

It was 8 April 1957 when publisher Jonathan Cape released the book that many, including John F. Kennedy, consider to be Ian Fleming’s greatest masterpiece. From Russia With Love is a brilliant tale of revenge. The revenge of one of the world’s most powerful nations waged against one man. A man named James Bond.

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The Blurb

Murder on the Orient Express

The Russians wanted to liquidate James Bond—ace British secret agent—in a way that would embarrass England. So they lined up their best team to pull off the job!

Tatiana Romanova

An alluring brunette seductress who looks like Garbo although her heart belongs to the State.

Red Grant

A renegade Irish hired assassin, who likes to kill for kicks.

Rosa Klebb

Head of Otydel II, department of torture and death, a hideous woman with a lust for inflicting excruciating torment.

The master of conspirators devise a trap designed to eliminate Bond on a perilous journey from Istanbul to Paris via the lush Orient Express. A trip on which Bond makes passionate love to one of his captors as he fights desparately to protect his life from the others, while the train speeds towards its ultimate, awful rendezvous with death!

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It was about this time that his body began to feel strange and violent compulsions around the time of the full moon. When, in October of his sixteenth year, he first got ‘The Feeling’ as he called them to himself, he went out and strangled a cat. This made him ‘feel good’. He had enough sense to see that the village would start wondering about the mysterious deaths, so he bought a bicycle and on one night every month he rode off into the countryside. Often he had to go very far to find what he wanted and, after two months of having to satisfy himself with geese and chickens, he took a chance and cut the throat of a sheep.

There were so few people abroad at night that soon he took to the roads earlier, bicycling far and wide so that he came to distant villages in the dusk when solitary people were coming home from the fields and girls were going out to their trysts.

When he killed the occasional girl he did not ‘interfere’ with her in any way. That side of things, which he had heard talked about, was quite incomprehensible to him. It was only the wonderful act of killing that made him ‘feel better’. Nothing else.

Chapter 2, From Russia With Love

Chapters

  1. ROSELAND
  2. THE SLAUGHTERER
  3. POST-GRADUATE STUDIES
  4. THE MOGULS OF DEATH
  5. KONSPIRATSIA
  6. DEATH WARRANT
  7. THE WIZARD OF ICE
  8. THE BEAUTIFUL LURE
  9. A LABOUR OF LOVE
  10. THE FUSE BURNS
  11. THE SOFT LIFE
  12. A PIECE OF CAKE
  13. ‘B.E.A. TAKES YOU THERE…’
  14. DARKO KARIM
  15. BACKGROUND TO A SPY
  16. THE TUNNEL OF RATS
  17. KILLING TIME
  18. STRONG SENSATIONS
  19. THE MOUTH OF MARILYN MONROE
  20. BLACK ON PINK
  21. ORIENT EXPRESS
  22. OUT OF TURKEY
  23. OUT OF GREECE
  24. OUT OF DANGER?
  25. A TIE WITH A WINDSOR KNOT
  26. THE KILLING BOTTLE
  27. TEN PINTS OF BLOOD
  28. LA TRICOTEUSE

Timeline

The events of From Russia, With Love occur between:

June 10 to August 17 1954

Dates calculated by Walter von Tagen III

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